Coronapod: Ramping up responses
Benjamin Thompson, Noah Baker, and Amy Maxmen discuss the latest on the British response, and what low- and middle-income countries have done to prepare for the pandemic.In this episode:01:33 Testing ...
3 Apr 202036min
02 April 2020: Dating an ancient hominid skull, and an ancient Antarctic rainforest
This week, reassessing the age of the ‘Broken Hill skull’, and unearthing evidence of an ancient forest near the South Pole.In this episode:01:25 A skull’s place in historyAfter nearly a century scien...
1 Apr 202017min
Coronapod: Old treatments and new hopes
Benjamin Thompson, Noah Baker, and Amy Maxmen discuss efforts to develop treatments for COVID-19.In this episode:02:00 A push for plasmaIn New York, hospitals are preparing to infuse patients with the...
27 Mars 202026min
25 March 2020: Ultra-fast electrical switches, and computing heart health
This week, a speedy, yet simple switch, and a video-based AI helps assess heart health.In this episode:01:57 Speedy switchesResearchers have developed an ultra-fast electrical switch that they hope ca...
25 Mars 202016min
Podcast Extra: Rosamund Pike on portraying Marie Curie
Radioactive is a new biopic on Marie Skłodowska Curie with Rosamund Pike taking on the role of Curie. This Podcast Extra is an extended version of reporter Lizzie Gibney's interview with Rosamund, in ...
21 Mars 202013min
Coronapod: “Test, test, test!”
In the first of our new podcast series, Benjamin Thompson, Noah Baker, and Amy Maxmen discuss the epidemiology needed to control the Covid-19 outbreak.In this episode:03:57 Testing timesCase numbers o...
20 Mars 202021min
19 March 2020: Rosamund Pike in Radioactive, and the resurgence of Russian science
This week, we speak to Rosamund Pike about her experience portraying Marie Skłodowska Curie, and we find out how science in Russia is changing after years of decline.In this episode:01:43 RadioactiveB...
18 Mars 202019min
Podcast Extra: Coronavirus - science in the pandemic
In this Podcast Extra, we hear from epidemiologists, genomicists and social scientists about how they're working to tackle the coronavirus and what they've learned so far. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...
17 Mars 202018min
